jidanni@jidanni.org wrote at 2009-05-09 12:57 -0600:
> On my older machine, upon the first boot of each day I get
Just the first boot of each day?! Or with any cold boot (powered up from off)?
It may be that your simplest *workaround* is to hit the reset button sometime
at/before the grub menu.
> cannot open /root/dev/console: no such file
> Kernel panic. not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
>
> Then I hit the reset button, and it boots fine.
> It seems to have started after I upgraded to linux-image-2.6.29-1-686
> A web search lead me to http://moto.debian.org.tw/viewtopic.php?p=29346
> suggesting one add DELAY=3 in /etc/mkinitrd/mkinitrd.conf
> etc. to slow down the handoff after grub or something.
>
> However it seems that I use initramfs-tools, so I need to know how to do
> that with that instead, and hopefully getting not much deeper than
> dpkg-reconfigure...
Are you using udev?
$ mount | grep udev
Have you tried using a older kernel image?